[bt-devel] rpm questions

[Martin Gruner]

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I'd also like to welcome Lamar very much here. We really appreciate your help 
a lot!

I want to put 2 issues for discussion:

1) I suggest that we stop compiling in sword and instead start to require the 
official sword rpm. This will avoid file conflicts in future and simplify our 
package.

2) We should reconsider the way bibletime-doc is handled. ATM it contains all 
translatable files, which includes program messages, tips and doc files 
including the helpdialog pages. As sven correctly pointed out on #sword, 
users who don't have bibletime-doc installed (est. 60% atm, judging from the 
downloads) will see 2 empty screens on the first startup (no helpdialog pages 
installed). This should not be. The main advantage for doing this was that it 
helps us with the translations, since the bibletime-doc package can be 
re-released independantly when a new translation was finished. The main 
backdraft atm is that the whole package will be re-released, not only the 
additional files.

I therefore suggest the following:
- -abandon bibletime-doc
- -keep all english data in bibletime
- -introduce localized packages such as
  bibletime-i18n-de
which contain all localized data for de, such as program messages, tips and 
help files.

This will involve some script revision, but should be possible. Another issue 
is that the admin/ dir would be in each cvs module, which is pretty much (1MB 
each). We could also try to introduce a bibletime-common folder, which holds 
the admin/ dir and possibly other common files as well.

Please comment on my suggestions. My solution would involve having quite a few 
rpms (one for each language), which is a good idea imo. The independance for 
the translators is necessary, otherwise we'll never have a release.

Martin
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